Based on the 8th Biennial Rice Symposium on Linguistics held in 2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Some basic issues in the grammar of causation -- Masayoshi Shibatani -- Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates -- T Giv6n and Phil Young -- Verbs of interpersonal causality and the folk theory of mind and behavior -- Bertram F. Malle -- The causative continuum -- Masayoshi Shibatani and Prashant Pardeshi -- Causation, constructions, and language ecology: An example from French -- Michel Achard -- Tarascan causatives and event complexity -- Ricardo Maldonado and E. Fernando Nava L. -- Some constraints on Cora causative constructions -- Ver6nica Vdzquez Soto -- Olutec causatives and applicatives -- Roberto Zavala -- On some causative doublets in Classical Nahuatl -- Michel Launey -- The notion of transfer in Sikuani causatives -- Francesc Queixal6s -- Causative constructions in Akawaio -- Anatol Stefanowitsch -- Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru) -- David W. Fleck -- Causativization and transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo -- Pilar M. Valenzuela -- Causatives in Asheninka: The case for a sociative source -- David Payne -- Guarani causative constructions -- Maura Veldzquez-Castillo -- Index.
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